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Lucas on Indiana, Jackson on Kong

By Garth Franklin Monday May 2nd 2005 10:17PM

Hollywood.com spoke with George Lucas recently who talked a little about the long gestating fourth "Indiana Jones" project. So how many scripts have there been? "I came up with this idea doing Young Indy, which has got to be about seven or eight years ago, and we've been through a number of scripts--six or eight scripts. Six scripts, two rewrites. So it's been down the path" says Lucas.

He confirms that Ford "plays an older person in this" and that it is possible there will be a younger person but "not really to take over" so don't expect further adventures in the franchise - "It wasn't meant to be that way. But I guess that's a possibility. It's really to wrap it up. Just desperately trying to put things together that work. You need characters to make the film work. It's not just an adventure story. There's actually got to be human relationships in it".

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Meanwhile, Peter Jackson talked about his aim to darken up his remake of "King Kong" to Three Monkeys Online, and revealed the big gorilla is set to be anything but friendly. "I wanted him to be very frightening. I think that's a much more interesting thing to do with the character. When you start with the most terrifying, vicious looking gorilla you can imagine and then you start to reveal his heart, you start to peel the layers away and you start to see his soul and his heart. He is the furthest thing away from cute that you could imagine and I think that's the more interesting approach to take. So he's frightening" says Jackson.

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Thanks to 'The Last Decepticon'.

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